the number of followers for each religion are in your state and your county:
Now, using the information in the charts, above, answer these questions:
Which religion is the youngest?
Sikhism is the youngest religion
Which three religions were founded in India?
The three religion that were founded in India are Buddhism, Hinduism and Sikhism
Which religion has no known founder?
Hinduism is a religion that has no founder
Which religions are older than Christianity?
Hinduism, Judaism, and Buddhism are older than Christianity
Which country today has the most Buddhists?
Chaina has the most Buddhists
Which country today has the most Muslims?
Today Indonisia has the most Muslims population.
What country has the most Sikhs?
India has the most Sikhs.
What are the top three Christian denominations in the USA?
Catholic, Baptist and Methodist/Pietist are the 3 top Christian denomination in USA.
What are the top three Christian denominations in the World?
The 3 top Christian denomination in the world are Catholic, Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox), and Pentecostal.
Which is the smallest non-Christian religion in the world (out of the six religions on the chart)?
Judaism is the smallest non-Christian religion in the world.
Enter your answers to the questions on the course site assessment for this assignment.
Please reflect on this activity in a paragraph or more:
A valuable insight or something interesting or surprising that you learned from this exercise?
Why is this valuable, interesting or surprising to you?
How does this activity/insight relate to your life?
What questions does this activity raise for you?
Write your reflections here:
First of all, it was interesting to know how old religions are. Also, the titles of holly text of each religion was a nice thing to get knowledge about. It is worth to notice that these main religions have a lot of common things. For example, Judaism, Islam and Christianity are monotheistic religions; Judaism and Christianity were founded approximately at the same time; Christianity and Islam have only one saint book; Sikhism and Hindusim have the biggest number of followers in the same country they were founded. The thing that impressed me the most is a fact that the biggest number of followers of Christianity is in the United States. This is valuable for me, because it is my country and somehow it made me proud. This activity helped me to refresh my knowledge about the most common religions and it is a useful information that really educated person needs to know. When you communicate with people from different cultures you need to know at least basic things about them and religion is an often topic in conversations. After completing this activity I had few questions left. It was found that Hinduism has unknown founder. This appeared to be a very exciting thing. How did it happen that nobody knows a founder of Hinduism? Why there was no note left about him/her? How many years in fact this religion exists? I mean, how great has to be a number of followers of this religion that it was saved till this day without knowing the founder? These questions may never be answered. But it is exactly a thing that makes this riddle exciting.
